Plus, why won’t government use big data against terrorists?

In a 2-1 decision Tuesday, the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals approved the President’s “net neutrality” rules to regulate the Internet like a 19th-century railroad. The court that Mr. Obama and Harry Reid broke the filibuster rule to pack with liberals has delivered for the President, even though his FCC “can’t summon a single instance of the Internet discrimination its rules purport to solve,” notes the editorial board. Will Silicon Valley ever be the same?

Whether or not Silicon Valley can continue to create new technologies,...